Farmland left idle and dormant is creating an unhealthy dust problem in California.
Over 1 million acres of fallow farmland are contributing to the growing dust, which has health and climate implications in the state’s Central Valley.
What’s happening?
According to the University of California, Merced, approximately 77% of fallowed land in California is connected to 88% of the human-caused dust events.
UC Merced professors studied this phenomenon and published their findings in the journal Communications Earth & Environment…